Newspaper important Improvement: Possibility to Disable View-Tracking

Hello Sirs,

Newspaper is great! And I theoretically love the Newspaper “View Counter” of pages. But as everytime, there are big exceptions. I had a look at the sourcecode and the current implementation has two major drawbacks/dealbrackers.

### Problems:
1.) Performance: On large Sites, This feature introduces one additional Write to the Database per View! As you know, writes are much more expensive than reads. So for large Blogs this can kill the whole website.

2.) Your current implementation shows the View Counter in the Admin Backend in the Lists when viewing CUstom Post Types. And this is in a lot of cases not desired. I have for example a Jobs CPT. And I do not want the Owners to see exactly how many times evrey Post (Job) has been viewed. This is a private an confidential information. So I do not want the view Count column to be displayed in the Backend-Admin Lists…

### Solutions:
Best: Please provide an Option to completely disable View Tracking! This is quite easy to implement. I think you can even hook into the AJAX logic (that decides if AJAX Tracking should be used) so its very easy to implement .

(Alternatives:
Or implement some internal filters hooks so I can write a “plugin” to hook in an disably it on my own.

I would be thankfull for an answer when this could be implemented in Newspaper (I think this is really a feature, as you can sell this as “performance optimization / confidentiallity” features

thanks.

Hi Lucian,

great support, thanks very much!

best regards